- oil companies pollute like crazy, but we pay for cleanup, health issues, and environmental damage. they pocket the profits. - tons of public research (medici

- oil companies pollute like crazy, but we pay for cleanup, health issues, and environmental damage. they pocket the profits. - tons of public research (medicine, tech, etc.) gets privatized. taxpayers fund it, but companies patent the results and rake it in. - 2008 financial crisis: banks made reckless bets, tanked the economy, got bailed out with public money. profits stayed private. - gig economy: workers rely on public benefits (like food stamps or medicaid) because wages suck, but the companies make billions. - resource extraction: companies lease public land super cheap, destroy it, and leave taxpayers to deal with the mess.